The Long History of Qingxiu Mountain

Qingxiushan has a long history. According to the Nanning Prefecture Records, the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there has been a Taoist Luo Xiu in the Taiqing Peak Jieqing Cliff alchemy. In the Tang Dynasty, there were White Horse Temple and Wanshou Zen Temple. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, the Ministry of Criminal Affairs, Dong Chuanze was relegated to Nanning, he often traveled to Mount Qingxiu, leaving many poems, such as "Song of the Green Mountain"; then Mount Qingxiu flourished for a while, the construction of a number of attractions, among which there are the famous Taicheng far away from the view, the moonlit night of the mountain room, the shadow of the sunset pagoda, the night of the pine winds, the sails of the river breaking the waves, the cool pavilion to listen to the springs, the fishing lamps of the Shapu, the meal of the show view of the round and so on the eight scenic spots, but by the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, due to the war, the years of disrepair, many of the Garden architecture suffered damage. Since ancient times, Qingxiu Mountain has been a place for people to travel and relax, recite poems and paintings, and burn incense to pray for blessings. 1984, the people's government rebuilt the Qingxiu Mountain Scenic Spot in response to the wishes of the people.

At present, the scenic spot has the Phoenix Tower, the ancient road cliff carving, the ancient banyan hugging the stone, the Xiaodai, and the Ming Dynasty style of the Longxiang Pagoda, the famous Buddhist temple--Guanyin Zen Temple, the exotic Sino-Thai Friendship Garden, the Qingxiushan gate which is called the first gate of Guangxi, the Palm Garden with distinctive subtropical scenery, the ecological landscape with unique tropical rainforest characteristics--Tropical Rainforest Garden, the ecological garden with the characteristics of the rainforest -Tropical Rainforest Garden, the largest national protection center of Sutian with the name of living fossil -Sutian Garden, China-ASEAN Friendship Garden which gathers national flowers and trees of ASEAN countries, and so on. In addition, there are more than 30 attractions such as Dongquan, Yuntian Pavilion, Stele Gallery, Peach Blossom Garden, Fragrance Garden, etc. The existing monuments of the Ming and Qing Dynasties and the inscriptions of celebrities and scribes are abundant, which make it a tourist attraction for sightseeing, searching for antiquities, and recreation, and it is also a scenic spot integrating tourism, recreation, scientific research, and popularization of science.

Dong Spring is located not far from the south side of the fetching green cliffs, the spring water is fresh and clean, and does not dry up all year round. Ming Jiajing years, Dong Chuanze and friends traveling with the Qingxiu Mountain, found this spring, named it "mixed spring", is a metaphor for the study of the original also. He had a stonemason chisel a stone faucet at the outlet of the spring, and built a square pool with stones underneath it. Spring water overflowed from the mouth of the stone dragon head into the pool. Lotus flowers were planted in the pool and it was named "Green Lotus Pond". It was also called "Dragon's Ambergris Well" because it received spring water from the dragon's mouth. Later, in order to honor Dong Chuanze, the name was changed to "Dongquan" and a "Dongquan Pavilion" was built over the spring. In 1989, the People's Government of Nanning City listed Dongquan as a municipal cultural relic.

Guanyin Zen Temple, also known as Sanbao Hall, Sanbao Buddha, for the Goddess of Mercy. Zen temple seat north to south, round the treasure hall in front of the white jade Guanyin, left hand holding a bottle, the right hand holding a willow, the treasure hall is enshrined in the thousands of hands and thousands of eyes of the Guanyin statue, for the country's largest handmade the most exquisite sandalwood gold-plated thousands of hands and thousands of eyes of the Guanyin statue; reclining Buddha hall is enshrined in the Burma jade reclining Buddha statue weighing 18.4 tons, for the Burmese royal family gift, is the largest reclining Buddha statue by the world's largest whole piece of natural jade carvings; the yard enshrined in Guanshengdiun as the Buddhist protector, is the largest tin bronze Guan Gong statue in Southeast Asia; two Northern Song Dynasty Buddha and the Ming Dynasty incense burner for the municipal protection of cultural relics, the temple side of the stupa enshrined in the modern Zen master - the old monk Yuan's relics, is a place where Buddhists gather, incense flourished. Every year on the eighth day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar in this "Bathing Buddha Festival", but also to attract all kinds of men and women come here to pray for blessings and make a wish, praying for "sprinkle a body of holy water, get a lifetime of happiness".

In 2004, the original temple was expanded on 15 acres of new land to the north of the original temple. There are newly built Daxiongbao Hall, Fuhui Lecture Hall, Guanyin Pavilion, Jizang Hall, Reclining Buddha Hall, Jalan Hall, Heavenly King Hall, Five Guanyin Halls, Guest Halls, Monk's Lodges, Resident's Lodges, Bell and Drum Towers, and Shoupi as an integrated imitation of Tang Dynasty architecture, and the expanded Guanyin Zen Monastery will become a new attraction of ASEAN Expo and Scenic Spot, and it is the largest Buddhist monastery in Guangxi.

Shuiyuean is located on the west side of Tianchi of Qingxiu Mountain, covering an area of 0.22 hectares. It was built in the 44th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, with a history of more than 300 years, and was named because the water and the moon reflect each other at night, which is as beautiful as a fairyland. Shuiyuean has a large entrance hall with the statue of Maitreya and the Bodhisattva Vedanta. In the front, there is a statue of Sakyamuni in the center of the Mahamuni Hall, with a great disciple, Venerable Gautama, standing on the right, and an attendant, Venerable Ananda, standing on the left. On the right side of the Mahamudra Hall is the Jade Buddha Hall and on the left side is the Guanyin Hall. On both sides of the nunnery are the compartments and fasting restaurants. The whole nunnery has red walls, red pillars, yellow glazed tile roof, and warped corners and heavy eaves.

The Ethnic Style Park consists of three parts: the gate of Qingxiushan Mountain, Zhuangjin Square, and Copper Drum Music Stage. Qingxiushan gate with strong Guangxi local ethnic characteristics, the roof adopts the shape of Guangxi Dong wind and rain bridge, has the reputation of "the first door in Guangxi", resembles a phoenix spreading its wings, the shape is similar to the Chinese character "山", implying the meaning of "青秀山". The shape is similar to the Chinese character for "mountain", implying the meaning of "Qingxiushan". Zhuang Jin Square in accordance with the Zhuang folk crafts - the style of Zhuang Jin, stone spelling a 3000 square meters of Zhuang Jin pattern, the center of the sun's rays of the pattern, symbolizing the light, implying that the Zhuang people are a revered light of the nation. Guangxi is known as the hometown of copper drums, copper drums are the precious cultural heritage left by the ancestors of the Zhuang people to their descendants, and the sculpture on the copper drum music stage is precisely to take the copper drums as the visual focus, supplemented by Huashan mural portraits, animal and plant motifs, showing the national spirit of Guangxi with a unique language and rugged modeling. The lamp posts around the square also adopt the shape of copper drums, with frogs perched on top of the drums, fully reflecting the essence of Zhuang culture that frogs are the "essence of copper drums". The 40th anniversary of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, the opening ceremony of the 1999 Nanning International Folk Song Festival, the opening ceremony of the 2000 China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival and other large-scale activities have been held here, and well-known TV programs such as "Variety" and "Life" have also filmed programs here.

China - ASEAN Friendship Garden is located in the Qingxiu Mountain, copper drums singing platform to the Scholar's Spring between the east of the Scholar's Spring, south of the Yongjiang River, north of Langdong New District, is a witness to the development of cooperation and exchanges between Guangxi and ASEAN course of development is to symbolize the friendship of Nanning and ASEAN peoples of the ecological Friendship Garden for all eternity. The garden is divided into walking activities and ASEAN eleven miniature park and celebrity tree garden. The ASEAN miniature park is located in a large open lawn, rich in national characteristics of the architectural sketches and garden sketches are distributed in a circle, chic and fresh, reflecting the peace and unity. Inside the park, the space is open, and different shapes of landscape stone lawn are dotted on the lawn, combining with the surrounding environment to become an open-air attraction, providing an open space for organizing all kinds of activities. The landscape greening in the park is mainly based on flowering plants, and planted with the national flowers and trees of China and the ten ASEAN countries and characteristic tree species, such as Malaysia's national flower Fusang, Myanmar's national tree teak, the national flower of the Dragon Boat Flower and Vietnam's national tree cotton and so on, reflecting the ASEAN countries' landscape characteristics from a variety of perspectives.

In October 2005, the "China - ASEAN Architecture and Art Large-scale Lantern Exhibition" was held in this area, with 16 colorful lanterns decorating the architectural shapes with the artistic flavor of China and ASEAN countries, such as Malaysia's Twin Peaks Pagoda, Singapore's Fish-tailed Lion, Cambodia's Angkor Wat, Bali's Goddess Temple, China's Temple of Heaven and the Temple of Goddess in China, as well as the Temple of Heaven in China. Goddess Temple, China's Temple of Heaven, the Oriental Pearl Tower, etc., its exquisite conception, grand scale, magnificent lighting effects, so that tourists overnight all over China and ASEAN countries classic architectural landscape.

China-Thailand Friendship Garden, also known as Thai Garden and Thai Buddha Hall, is a garden attraction built by Nanning City and Khon Kaen City of Thailand as part of a cultural exchange program signed between the two cities in 1993 and designed by Thai designers. The whole building consists of Buddha Hall, wooden building, stupa and wooden bell group, representing the architectural styles of south, north and central Thailand respectively, exuding a rich Thai flavor. Inside the Buddha Hall, a golden body of Buddha Sakyamuni is enshrined, and on the corridor, there are eight statues of Buddha with different demeanor, either sitting or standing, nine statues of Buddha are gifted by Khon Kaen Municipal Government. Painted on the walls of the Thai Buddha Hall above the mural colorful, expressive characters, vivid, divided into two parts,

The upper part of the description of Buddha Sakyamuni from the birth of the process of Buddhahood, depicting the delicate way, the image of realistic scenery, there are fierce war scenes, but also the Lord Buddha preaching picture; and the second half of the embodiment of the northeastern Thailand's folklore and folklore, the story of the local residents singing and dancing to a better life and their religious beliefs. The second half of the temple embodies the folklore of northeastern Thailand, which is about the local people's singing and dancing and their religious beliefs and living habits. The nine big bells on the left side of the Thai Buddha Hall are said to emit sounds that can lead to heaven and hell, and when people go to the hall to worship the Buddha and then ring the bells, the sound of the bells can send people's wishes up to heaven, praying for the blessing of the gods. In addition, the garden is planted with all kinds of green subtropical plants in a tranquil environment, which is the only exotic garden in Nanning. Its establishment is the crystallization of cultural exchanges between China and Thailand, Nanning and Khon Kaen, marking a new progress in Nanning's foreign cultural exchanges and cooperation.

Phoenix Pagoda is located at the head of Phoenix, the main peak of Qingxiu Mountain, the tower is five-storey high, the layers are open, climb the tower and look out over the mountains and rivers. Tower after the three gossip steps, all levels of stone pillars and balustrades are carved with ancient Zhuang dance figures and bird and flower patterns, the top of the stone pillars are also carved with different stone lions **** 24. Tower in front of the "phoenix play peony" stone carving a statue, 4 meters high. As the old saying goes: "The phoenix plays with peony, the peony is ninety-nine", standing at the top of the Phoenix Head Mountain and looking far ahead, there are 99 mountain ranges, each of which is like a blooming peony flower. When you look at Qingxiu Mountain from the south, the shape of the mountain is like a phoenix spreading its wings, and the Phoenix Tower is built on the highest place in the middle - the Phoenix Head.

The Dragon and Elephant Pagoda, commonly known as the Castle Peak Pagoda, is named after the "great strength of the dragon on the water line and the great strength of the elephant on the land line". Built in the Ming Wanli years, the Ming Dynasty architectural style, tower shape for the octagonal eaves 9 layers, each layer of copper bells hanging under the corner, **** 72, 52.35 meters high, 12 meters in diameter at the base of the tower, there are 257 steps of the spiral staircase, under the tower of the south side of the Jade Belt Gallery, the tower of the north door in front of the "reconstruction of the Longxiang Tower monument," a, is a landmark of the Qingshoushan. Climbing to the top of the tower, you can look out over the Yongjiang River and the distant mountains, dozens of miles of field scenery as far as the eye can see. Longxiang Pagoda and its north of the Tianchi reflect each other, the pool reflects the tower, the tower shadow into the pool, known as the "tower shadow Tianchi", Nanning City, "Ten Landscapes" one.

Qingxiushan Scenic Area has nearly 1,200 species of tropical and subtropical plants, and it is the largest gathering place of sundews, palms and aromatic plants in Guangxi, with a large number of national rare and endangered plants and wild plant resources. The plant attractions are distinctive, beautiful and highly praised.

The garden is located in the western slope of the western foot of Phoenix Ridge of Qingxiu Mountain, covering an area of more than 50 acres, was initially completed in November 1998 and opened. Southeastern iron, commonly known as "iron tree", is a rare and endangered gymnosperm, is an ancient plant group, as early as 200 million years ago in the Paleozoic Carboniferous period has come to our planet, in the Mesozoic Jurassic period to reach its heyday, with the dinosaurs *** with the hegemony of the earth, in the process of plant evolution plays an important role in the experience of a long time! Rise and fall, only a small number of species miraculously survived to date, so there is a "living fossil" name. The world now has more than 240 species in 11 genera of 3 families of cycads. China's native cycads have only one family and one genus (i.e. Cycads), about 30 kinds of species, naturally distributed in the southern provinces and districts, of which about 20 species are distributed in Guangxi. In recent decades, due to deforestation, land clearing, extraction and other man-made factors of serious damage, the population has declined sharply, in 1996, the Ministry of Forestry will be all the species of China's cycads as a first-class protected plants. With its peculiar tree shape and dashing feathered leaves, Sutherlandia has a high aesthetic value and is loved by the people. It has been cultivated in China for more than a thousand years. It grows slowly, only 1-3 centimeters per year. The whole body of Sutherlandia can be used as medicine, with slight toxicity, and the stem is rich in starch, which can be eaten after treatment. In difficult times Shishan Suthep was used as food and saved many people's lives, so it is known as "fairy rice" in Guangxi.

Sutian dioecious, in the south can flower and seed, due to the good environment of Qingxiu Mountain and the careful maintenance of garden workers, Qingxiu Mountain, the garden of sutian every year there are a lot of sutian bloom, every year from May to July, the sutian bloomed strange male and female flowers y attracted a lot of tourists. The iron grows slowly, but the life span is very long, there is a huge iron tree in Qingxiu Mountain iron garden, is the oldest one in the garden, the age of the tree is more than 1300 years old, known as the "King of the iron", can be regarded as a rare treasure. At present, Qingshoushan Su Tie Garden has collected 28 kinds of Su Tie, forming the largest relocation of Su Tie, Shishan Su Tie, Debaosu Su Tie and forked-leaf Su Tie to protect the population, realizing the perfect combination of Su Tie protection and landscape gardening, and fully demonstrating the "scientific content, artistic appearance", which has been highly praised by leaders at all levels, experts and scholars, and the majority of tourists. Highly praised by leaders at all levels, experts and scholars, and the majority of tourists, is a well-known domestic and foreign specialties of the garden, which has strongly promoted the protection, research and development of China's ironwoods, especially Guangxi ironwoods, and has played an invaluable role in protecting biodiversity, maintaining the balance of the earth's ecosystems, and improving the living environment.

The tropical rainforest is located in the section from Phoenix Ridge to Fengwei Ridge of Qingxiushan Scenic Area, with an altitude of 180-289 meters, covering an area of 35 hectares, planted with nearly 1,000 kinds of sub-tropical plants, such as tall broad-leaved trees, epiphytes, lianas, ferns, etc., and it is the ecological garden attraction of Qingxiushan Mountain with unique sub-tropical characteristics. At present, more than 1,000 kinds of plants of 115 families have been planted in different sections, initially forming several areas such as giant leaf plant area, plate root plant area, climbing and hanging plant area, aquatic plant area, etc., and gradually forming a tropical rainforest forest phase. The construction of Qingxiushan Tropical Rainforest Park imitates the characteristics of nature's tropical rainforest and adopts the technique of plant gardening, reproducing the wonders of the plant kingdom with flying vines, rippling blue waves, birdsong, flowers and misty clouds. In this dense plant kingdom, you can not only enjoy the fresh moist air, but also feel the mysterious and unpredictable plant world, the plants in the rainforest in their unique way to survive, reproduce, and carry out the fierce competition for the survival of the fittest. Here you can see interesting plant phenomena such as parasitism, ****-biosis, epiphytosis, strangulation, and putrefaction, which are so strange and varied that you can appreciate the magic of nature.

Because the rainforest is rich in plant species, the scenic area to the plants hung on the plant signboard, more conducive to people's understanding of a variety of plants, and thus the rainforest has become a popular science education base; and here all year round with a high concentration of negative oxygen ions, but also to make it a unique natural recreational bar, and thus the rainforest is also more and more favored by the people.

Palm Garden is located in the center of the Qingxiushan Scenic Area around the mountain Xiuping section, covering an area of 14.2 hectares, with a distinctive subtropical landscape, a collection of more than 100 kinds of more than 6,000 palm plants, are native to Guangxi, Dong Palm, anemone fishtail, the foreign introduction of jujube, coconut palm, sugar palm, tiger-tailed anemone, the old man anemone, Cocoanutum, anemone, the garden of the rushing of the manmade streams twisting and turning, and the natural environment, is a visitor's integration. It is the main place for visitors to carry out outdoor group activities and leisure sports. The "Macao Return Forest" planted on the mid-level slope is a map of Macao made up of 1,999 coconuts during the "May 4" in 1999, which is a gift offered by the youth of Nanning to celebrate the return of Macao to the embrace of the motherland, and is a base for patriotic education in Guangxi. Guangxi patriotic education base. After all aspects of cultivation and maintenance, the palm garden is now rich in variety and good growth, attracting more and more Chinese and foreign tourists.

The Fragrant Garden is located in the section from the Great Lawn to the xiaojiao terrace, covering an area of more than 200 acres. Mainly to fragrant plants as the main body of the garden, known as the Qingxiushan natural "pure incense bar", the planting area, varieties, the number of fragrant flowers are ranked among the most garden in Guangxi. Fragrant flowers planted in the garden is very rich in fragrant plants, both trees and shrubs, both evergreen plants and deciduous plants. At present, the fragrant plants successfully planted in the Fragrant Flower Garden include: magnolia, lotus magnolia, magnolia, Beijing magnolia, yellow orchid, mountain magnolia, fire heather (drunken incense hanxiao), deep mountain hanxiao (light-leaved magnolia), gray woodlily, rowan (laburnum), hanxiao, jiulianthus, Milan, osmanthus, etc. The fragrant plants planted in the Fragrant Flower Garden have a long flowering period, and they have both evergreen and deciduous plants. Many fragrant plants have a long flowering period and a strong fragrance. While sterilizing and purifying the air, they can also regulate the human nervous system, promote blood circulation, produce vigorous energy, and make people feel refreshed. Therefore, every blooming season, the fragrance of the garden exudes a burst of refreshing fragrance, have attracted a large number of tourists, lingering in the midst of it.

Throughout the ages, many writers and writers are because they love the scent of fragrant plants, composed many poems in praise of fragrant plants. For example, "melon small leaves also elegant, full of trees and open rice-like flowers; aroma who can compare, ushered in the far guest bubble tea" is the true portrayal of Milan in the fragrant garden; nine incense incense for a long time, green and red fruits *** hang full of branches, so there are "winter and summer evergreen green heaps of jade cuts the silver star smile tree bushes; aroma of thousands of miles and Thousands of miles, Cuizhu red fruit dance a branch" of the name ......

After a few years of introduction of cultivation, the scenic area continues to enrich the plant varieties of the fragrant garden, continue to increase the introduction of fragrant plants, to create an elegant, healthy, four seasons fragrant environment.

The peach blossom garden is located in the phoenix ridge and the phoenix wing ridge section, covers an area of about 200 acres, in 1985 started construction, in 1986 was initially completed and opened. At first, the peach blossoms concentrated around the Yaochi, and Sanbao Hall (now Guanyin Zen Temple) connected to form a scene, constituting the Yaochi Wonderland. After years of renovation and expansion, Qingxiushan Peach Blossom Garden has a certain scale, **** divided into the fire land, Peach Blossom Island (Fengyiling), azalea garden several plots. Especially the Peach Blossom Island has the best area and landscape, and the planting of peach trees combines well with the original landforms to create a beautiful and comfortable landscape. Now the peach blossom garden planted peach varieties are hairy peach, scarlet peach, scented peach, chrysanthemum peach, human face peach, sun and moon peach, pink jade, five treasures pendant branch, Sanyi peach, purple leaf peach and so on more than a dozen varieties of about 8,000, planted azalea about 30,000 plants.

"Once a year the spring breeze arrives, once a year the peach blossom is red", the Peach Blossom Garden has successfully held more than ten Peach Blossom Festivals since it was built and opened. Every February and March when spring flowers bloom, the peach blossoms and azaleas in Qingxiu Mountain are in full bloom, colorful, and a thousand shades of red. Red men and women come here to trek, enjoy the flowers, blessings, pray for good luck and good fortune in the coming year, really the face of the peach blossom competition enchanting, ten thousand flowers competing drunken spring breeze. Many people like to enjoy the peach blossom, not only because the peach blossom has delicate petals, but also because the flowers, fruits and leaves of the peach blossom have the connotations of happiness, goodness and good fortune, often giving people a warm, distant imagination and comfort. As Peach Blossom Island is located on the top of a mountain with a favorable geographical position, whenever it is cloudy and rainy or foggy in the season, the whole Peach Blossom Garden is surrounded by smoke and mist, forming a marvelous picture of an earthly paradise!